First Nugget Hunting Trip Of The Year Yields One

[Goldseeker5000]

One Guy and myself went on the first detecting trip of the year this past Thursday and we were gone til Sunday. I got to the location and headed up the road only to find the road was snowed in for the last 2 miles and was unpassable. I turned around and drove back to the highway to wait for One Guy to show up. When he did, I told him we were out of luck and too early so we decided to go in thru the lower road. We got close to the placer working and knocked on a door of a house closeby to ask who owns the property the tailings were on and low and behold this was the lucky house. We got permission to hunt and camp on 130 acres of dry land dredged ground on a hillside and the next day the  nice gentleman got us permission on another landowners property bordering his. So now we had 1030 acres of gold placer ground to hunt on. It was tuff ground to find any nuggets on as I believed it was too far down the drainage to find many nuggets but on Saturday at 1:00 I found the first one of the year and it was the second one with my new 5000. I was using the Sadie  coil. I love that little coil. I got plenty of shots for the cover of my book. I did not find any more nuggets the rest of the trip and One Guy got skunked. We even had to detect thru a couple snow squalls and the night time temps got down to 19 and 20 degrees which made for cold sleeping conditions in the back of our trucks. All in all it was a good trip that started out bad but turned out good for the first trip of the year.

[beatup]

congrats on beating the skunk

[LuckyLundy]

WTG!  Keep swinging and keep warm

[AllenJ]

Great job, congrats sir.

[Steve in Idaho]

I am glad that you found a place to detect. I am still trying to get into another place.

[Goldseeker5000]

I still have a few secret spots over by you Steve, but the pass isn't open yet. This place I just went to also has produced large nuggets. The largest nugget found in Montana was found in the next gulch over. It was 27 troy pounds. The gold bearing gravels cover a 20 square mile area. I'm doing my research to get further up drainage into better nugget territory. I found a fault zone and will be heading back to investigate that spot on a gold bearing creek.

[Goldseeker5000]

I guess I was wrong. I haven't heard about these ones.

[flakmagnet]

good find with one of the best coils ever made...best of luck going forward!

 

[oneguy]

There's some detectable yellow over there...we just didn't find the hot spot....YET!  Had fun, we got LOTS of ground to snoop, and met some truly fine folks!!!!!!  Next time....!!!!